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A Superior Court judge has reversed course and decided that a Swampscott businessman is entitled to $2.3 million for selling his stake in an outdoor apparel company after all. Lawrence Shutzer and his lawyers thought an Essex Superior Court jury ...

Employment lawyers see the state’s new pay equity law as a balanced measure that opens the door to recovery by plaintiffs while providing smart employers the opportunity to limit their exposure to claims for gender-based wage discrimination when the measure ...

A bankruptcy judge has found that a creditor who paid off a debt on which both he and a former business partner were co-guarantors could be subrogated to the lender’s position against that former business partner and his wife when ...

A car accident victim was entitled to MedPay benefits under her auto policy even though she had not exhausted all $8,000 of her personal-injury “PIP” benefits and her health insurer had already paid her medical bills, the Appeals Court has ...

As plaintiffs’ lawyers hail the Supreme Judicial Court’s recent expansion of the mode-of-operation approach to premises liability, the defense bar is hoping the court will soon enunciate limiting principles defining the boundaries for the doctrine’s application in commercial settings. Last ...

Boston attorneys Charles R. Capace and Robert V. Ward Jr. aim to accomplish two things with the motion for a new trial Capace argued in Suffolk Superior Court on Aug. 4. One, they hope to give their client a new ...

A class-action waiver in a mandatory arbitration agreement between a Domino’s Pizza franchisee and its employees could not be enforced against delivery drivers asserting wage and tip law violations, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. The plaintiff was a ...

The Nantucket Planning Board abused its discretion when it issued a special permit for an owner/developer to convert a one-story residential cottage into a larger commercial rental property with public access to a deck over the water, a Land Court ...

A Hong Kong investment analyst pleaded fraud with sufficient particularity to proceed with an intentional misrepresentation claim against a Massachusetts company that rescinded a job offer shortly after he left the employment he had, a U.S. District Court judge has ...

Is it too late to stop the train? That’s the question that one criminal defense attorney finds herself asking about the likely obsolescence of the state’s court reporters, whose jobs are expected to be phased out by early next year. ...